These two settings let you change the number that will be assigned automatically next time an item or bidder is created without a number being provided. You can adjust these if you have renumbered the items/bidders, or for example if you want bidders registering online to receive a high number. You do not have to guarantee that the number you specify is free, if it is taken the system will keep looking for a new number

Item# template

Bidder# template

You can use these two settings to influence the style of item & bidder numbers assigned. The syntax of the template should include a in the place you want the number to appear. For example to allocate all bidder numbers as Bnnn use the template:

B{{n}}

There are a couple of formatting filters you can apply. To pad all item (or bidder) numbers to 3 digits with leading zeros use:

{{n | pad3}}

There are also filters for pad4, pad5 and pad6 to pad to those lengths